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Drowning in Horseshoes Outshilled?
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Vido Pony

Based Jesse Wood is viewed by most as pretty much the only thing good to come out of the whole Analysis Spagfest. He openly admits that the My Little Pony fandom has more than a few autists in it, and claims to fight against it. However, while fighting cancer, he got shilled by it. Quite literally.

Patreon is a website that the Analysis youtubers have taken to as of late in an attempt to shill money out of the community for talking about colorful horseshoes. Jesse Wood is one of the few to successfully pull this off. Here's the fun part, though. Sheldog Poni, a podcast host, pledged $5,000 per review to Jesse. So Based Horsemask Reviewer obviously called him out on it, of course, and the podcast host was shamed afterwards.

Not really.

Drowning in Horseshoes not only bought it, but he bought into it before Sheldog had even explained how he could afford this. Nearly in tears of joy, he asked Sheldog why he was doing this for him. His excuse for being able to donate $5,000 a video was, "I have cancer, and I have all this money I've saved up laying around. And fuck charity."

After an hour of being in a call with several extremely autistic, annoying bronies (including myself), in attempt to give back for Based Sheldog's kindness, which can be listened to here, another analyst with half a brain by the name of Gibbontake informed Jesse that the entire thing was a scam.

Making his way to his Patreon page, Jesse proceeded to ban Sheldog from pledging, returning his income to $471.50 a video. Which, while a fairly large amount, now seemed to be mere pocket change by comparison. Finally, he proceeded to drown his shame in copious amounts of cheap beer.

It is written in our most ancient of books that, since Sheldog managed to outshill Jesse in a fair shill-off, he is to be crowned the new Fandom Hero. As we look forward to a new era of pointless drama, I, for one, welcome our new Canadian overlord who, quite literally, is fighting cancer at every moment.

And for all of you out there who pledge to give Mr. Wood your hard earned cash, for videos that he does not necessarily even enjoy making, we would like to offer you a different, more rewarding business proposal. Instead you should donate with enthusiasm towards our Mobile Action News Party Van. This van isnt some inane, trite petty virtual bullshit. No no no, it is a real life, rolling mass of 2 tons of pure drug induced lunacy. A simple youtube video offers you 5 to ten minutes of cheap tricks and silly laughs, and probably needs just the same amount of time to create. A party van though, lasts a lifetime, and is an investment you wont regret!

I'm just wondering when this bullshit horse drama is gonna end, and the actual legitimate brony content creators, i.e. Eli Monty, are going to move on to something legitimate like FeatherArtPony did. She got hired by an art company and is doing things on her own now under an employer. Hopefully the so-called "horse famous" voice actors, who are NOT Rina-chan, Dustyfatass, or anyone from EFN, can actually develop a legitimate career, and actually start watching what the fuck they are doing in the public eye.

While it was a great run to use ponies as a stepping stone, it's basically time for these small time voice actors to move on to bigger and better things. Because the way I see it, the MLP fan community is fucked. It's been fucked beyond repair considering this community is infected with horrible, rotten, immature people. And frankly, some members of the production teams at Hasbro, and I daresay some of the voice actors, are just as bad.

@ anon 1 If you think there is a future for many of these content creators, you're dead wrong.

There are some that could capitalize on their talent, and Feather actually is a good example. But for every one of her there is a talentless hack like Nowacking, Rina-Chan, and any of the twat basket moral guardians like Osaka Jack. It's very rare to for fandom personalities to translate themselves into a professional environment. Their entire lives are up for scrutiny due to social media. All it takes is one little rant, one little incident where they lose their cool and they're fucked. That shit follows you forever. A future employer will see it.

As for the show staff, no. Just because they engage with the fans does not put them anywhere near the same level. The staff, especially the VA's, all have very successful careers. Some of them VERY successful. They could walk away from this with their money and never look back. And like anon 2 said, this isn't going to change. Some people will just stick in the fandom. It's just a hobby to them, they don't have higher aspirations.

Anon I have never heard of 'feather' so I think I'd be suprised if he captalized on anything. From what I've seen if you want to do pony shit you can get #horsefamous and that's it, people expect you to commit to it and when you decide to move on as the few who actually want to do their own thing do their audience won't let them I.e 95% of their audience will ignore it. Alex S is the perfect example.

As for future employers 'scrutnizing' sorry but you're wrong unless they use there real name they won't see it. Don't forget that the #horsefamous crowd almost never have aspirations outside the fandom. DIH is the perfect example he tried the video game journalist route, didn't get the exposure to really push through, despite actually being way better at it then the pony shit, so when he got success doing this he hasn't tried to transition back because his numbers would be way too low to make any $$. The only person I have seen who can be #horsefamous and successful elsewhere is CatieWayne but then again no one in this fandom has more than 1% of her fame.

Everyone has some stupid shit on the internet. Just look at the casuals on le facebook, twitter, reddit etc. No one I know has ever had it affect them. You're letting the Jews control you anon and with no cause, nobody cares.

@Anon 3, your argument intrigues me a great deal. Though I have to beg a question. How is Nowacking talentless? She seems decent enough, but that's just me. Rina-Chan is an over entitled bitch who's GOTIS and awkwardness is just disturbing to the point that you don't want her hanging around you, that much I know. As for Osaka Jack, I agree with you. But I need more information. Basket moral guardians? What do you mean? I mean...he comes off as sort of an elitist over opinionated douchebag, but what experiences have you observed from the guy? Getting back to the point, you're absolutely right. They just behave so badly in the general public. It's almost as bad as the people who were on TGWTG.com

Now, onto the show staff. I don't know. I'm starting to think/feel that a lot of them hate our freaking guts. Applejack/Rainbow Dash's voice in particular. I mean...why did she engage in that documentary? Why do I feel like she wanted to find a bigger reason to hate the fans? If she does hate the fans, I do not blame her one bit; her hatred of the MLP fans are 100% intellectually justified.

On a related note, I was talking with a friend of mine about Tara Strong. And he told me this. "Tara sold her soul to the brony cultist shit, I really don't care about her anymore after seeing that she panders to them so damn much, as if that fandom was her stepping stone in being a celebrity, when we all know she voiced many other characters before the pony thing started. I feel as if she just turned her back on all fans that knew her as Batgirl and other characters from shows that were favorites. heck her twitter account, all she does is talk about that fandom but never seems to even mention anything else. I can't see myself following her anymore nowadays. Tara Strong seemed to get drunk into the entire attention she got from those neckbeards unfortunately." Then you have other celebrities who feel the need to inject their personal politics into their twitter pages, or their material and shove it down your throat or in your faces. Mara Wilson, Mary Jo Pehl, and a variety of other left-wing, socialist assholes who act so big because of their stardom, and think they don't have to give any respect to their fans. It makes my blood boil to no end.

Tara Strong has always craved attention. She just never had millions of dedicated fans in a show in which she was the protagonist. If you look through her past PR you can see she went to conventions did signings tweeted etc. She had dedicated fanbases before but she was only a cult figure. She was in Final Fantasy X-2 after all and we all know how insane that fanbase is. The only difference now is that the pandering has increased in line with her current fame. Also what is she supposed to do? Talk about her old jobs not the current one, she has always promoted her current work it is her career after all. I don't like how obnoxious and immature she is but that's her personality it hasn't changed just a lot more people have been exposed to it since late 2010.

May I offer up AntonyC for consideration? He's charming, intelligent, and entertaining with his take on the analysis thing, whenever he does it. And he doesn't even do it very often, so its not overwhelming.

On the elements of brony circlejerk he openly admitted he thinks 2/3 of the shows audience are bronies. You can't GET more autistic than that. His accent isn't charming, and his humor is awful. Listening to his smug smarmy voice makes me want to take a drill to my ears.